=The Blue Pages: Yellow Pages for the Old Web=

==Overview==

Hello there again! As you know, this site directory is now turned
into it's own very site. Why? Because that's more cooler and
somehow intuitive.

As I explain on the title, The Blue Pages serves as an old web
counterpart to Yellow Pages, an item from the bygone era of
traditional telephone where you open the book to find local
businesses and services in your are to call in.

The Blue Pages serves as a much niche complement to both the
White and Yellow Pages, instead of either providing a residential
directory or a directory for local businesses, it's a directory
of old web (and sometimes modern web) sites or platforms that
you could visit or use nowadays.

==But wait, isn't this Google?==

Yes... and no. Yes, we are listing websites to search for just
like Google, and no because I will do things differently.

See, even during it's 25 year old lifespan as a big tech company,
Google slowly is becoming an advertising powerhouse and not only
just only search engines. Google, Bing and other modern search
engines rely too much on the algorithms, which is horribly being
abused by mostly spammy websites, AI generated bullcrap and more
than more often than not, Reddit is added to suffixes of most
tech related search queries.

The Blue Pages differs by mimicking real life yellow pages. While
yellow pages sites exists, it mimics the directories for
something like hotels, so I decided to go with the same style
as the physical yellow pages.

In this layout, while it is only alphabetical and categorized,
it doesn't rely on algorithms, as it is already relevant to a
particular audience. Much of the listings on the page are included
by me or from submissions I saw on Mastodon, Discord or SpaceHey.

==But how do I use it?==

Easy! Go to the Blue Pages site, choose a category, and find
which website do you want to visit!

===How about putting my own site or my friend's?===

Submit them to me! I'll review it myself and would put it there
within days! You can send submissions on Mastodon, Discord,
SpaceHey or Email, but I can't guarantee that I could read
it immediately.

==What if I put ads on it?==

You can! But it's purely limited. I don't allow heavy use of
JavaScript, server-side scripting or malicious code injected in
the ad. Please send your code to me on a pastebin or in Codepen,
as well as where to put it.

===Available types===

- Inline - Put your ad as a listing only! Only uses text.
- Single column - Occupy a single column.
- Multi-column - More columns, more fun!
- All columns - More^2 columns, more fun!

==Why do this?==

1. Because search engines are designed with a broader audience
and this only aims an obviously smaller one.
2. It's cooland much more elaborate than a list only with
descriptions.
3. Because I can.
4. To have something from the physical world to the digital,
literally.
5.  And, I could procrastinate for longer periods.

==So what now?==

The Blue Pages is open source, in fact I made it a specification
[1] so everyone could use it.

I wanted everyone to embrace it, and adapt it for their
communities. The Blue Pages will connect sites together as the
directory is relevant to your niche interests, but without the
invasive stuff in it.

If you are wondering about the old site directory, then it would
be archived but unlinked except for the sitemap.

By this, I hope that you could reflect onto what the internet
was in ye olden days, and also to have fun browsing.

With the Blue Pages, you can Let Your Fingers Walk on Water. Quite
literally. Yes, we literally downgraded from actual search engines
but, do you even mind that? You are in your own anyways, so why
not check out the directory.

As for those curious, you can see the directory here.[2]

And as always, see you next time!

==Footnotes==
1: https://blue-pages.bitbucket.io/spec.html
2: https://blue-pages.bitbucket.io